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 23, and left April 3, 1901; now at Tottenham, London.

MULLINS, James, admitted Aug. 13, 1880; ord. priest Mar. 19, and left May 21, 1889; now at Seacombe, Birkenhead.

 NANFAN, William, fourth son of William Nanfan, of Bruch Morton, co. Worcester, Esq., by Jane Smyth, of Leices tershire; admitted Oct. 1, 1645; alumnus, Sept. 20, 1646; expelled, Jan. 1, 1647.

NEEDHAM, John Turberville, born in London, Sept. 10, 1713, son of John Needham, barrister, and his wife Margt. Lucas, went to Douay College, Oct. 10, 1722, ord. priest, May 31, 1738, taught rhetoric, left to assist Rev. Jno. Phil. Betts at Twyford School, near Winchester, in 1740; thence was ordered to Lisbon to teach philosophy, set out from England, Jan. 12, arrived Feb. 22, and formally installed professor, March 13, 1743-4; left to return to England, June 19, 1745; obtained European note as a physiologist; canon of Dendermonde, afterwards of Soignies; died at Brussels, Dec. 30, 1781, aged 68. Author of many scientific works. Vide Bibliog. Dict. of Engl. Caths. V. 157.

NELSON, Peter, vide Metcalfe.

NEVILLE, Thomas, admitted Nov. 13, 1883; left 1887; went St. Thomas Seminary, Hammersmith, and ord. priest Mar. 18, 1893; now at Eastbourne.

NEWMAN, William, vide Ralph Sliefild.

NEWPORT, Charles, vide Jennyns.

NEWTON, Robert, alumnus, March 25, 1747; ord. priest, Dec. 31, 1747; left for England, Dec. 24, 1749; stationed at Market Rasen, co. Lincoln; succeeded Mr. James Styche, alias Hawkins, at Sixhills Grange in 1764; so continued till a new chapel was built at Sixhills to accommodate the Hainton congregation, when he found himself unable to do the duty of the two congregations, and retired to Claxby, where he was living in a very in firm state in Sept. 1799, and died soon after.

NICHOLLS, Henry, born Feb. 4, 1724, son of Francis Nicholls and his wife Mary Horsleigh; admitted on the Nicholson Fund, Sept. 9, 1739; alumnus, March 25, 1747; ord. priest, March 9, 1748; left for England, Aug. 20, 1751; died on the mission in London, Feb. 11, 1774, aged 50. 